Comments by "" (@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684) on "The Battle of Jutland - Clash of the Titans - Part 3 (Aftermath, Outcome and Lessons)" video.

@ussenterprisecv6805 My father was a stoker onboard HMS Warspite at Salerno when the "Fritz X" bombs hit. Luckily he was off watch from his station and survived, but many in the machinery spaces didn't. The Fritz X that hit near Warspite's funnel blew a hole through her keel, but she simply wouldn't go down.
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Absolutely correct Skulldugger. A ship represented a microcosm of society with those at "the bottom" being the driving force that drove the "whole" thing forwards. My own father was a Royal Navy Stoker in WW2. Thank god coal burners were, for the navy at least, a thing of the past with oil fired boilers being their replacement, but even so he used to tell me of working boiler room watches in the tropics, with temperatures reaching over 120 degrees fahrenheit, when the stokers had to take their turn of climbing naked into the offline boilers with bronze brushes to scrape off the carbonisation within the heat transfer pipes. The boiler rooms also carried out the vital service of providing the ships company and engines with fresh water through the use of "evaporators" which turned sea water into pure water. Hard men indeed.
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You forgot about who remained in control of the battlefield after the smoke had cleared = Britain wins.
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@touristguy87 You jest.....
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